Released on: May 22, 2008, 12:37 pm

Press Release Author: CCSS, Ltd.

Industry: Software

Press Release Summary: QMessage Monitor, the IBM System i message monitoring
solution from CCSS has been selected by Love's Travel Stops and Country Stores to
help the company comply with PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard.)


Press Release Body: One Stop Compliance:QMessage Monitor Brings Critical PCI
Compliance to Love's Travel Stops and Country StoresMay 21, 2008 - QMessage Monitor,
the IBM System i message monitoring solution from CCSS has been selected by Love's
Travel Stops and Country Stores to help the company comply with PCI DSS (Payment
Card Industry Data Security Standard.) Operating from more than 210 travel stop
locations across 33 states from California to Virginia, each Love's location
includes a convenience store, a gift shop, a fast food restaurant and gasoline and
diesel dispensers for cars, trucks and RV's and has become the first name in road
side fuel and food services since 1964. Today, the company generates over $7 billion
in sales and sustains a growth rate of 15 new locations a year. Love's processes
hundreds of thousands of payment card transactions each year and required an
effective way to monitor for PCI compliance. PCI DSS was developed by the major
credit card companies as a guideline to help organizations that process card
payments. It aims to prevent credit card fraud, cracking and various other security
vulnerabilities and threats. A company processing, storing, or transmitting payment
card data must be PCI DSS compliant or risk losing their ability to process credit
card payments and being audited and/or fined. Love's Travel Stops and Country Stores
required a simple means of ensuring their systems complied with this standard and
offered them an easy means of recording and reporting each transaction for PCI
auditors. Love's utilizes an IBM System i model 515 to run its business critical
credit card applications and needed a solution that their 10 system users could
easily implement without any disruption to the core business processors. Tommy
Sellers, Systems Manager for Love's Travel Stops says, "We knew that we wanted a
solution that was very easy to use and would offer unequivocal data reports that
would satisfy the PCI auditors. CCSS is well known in the industry for solutions
that are functionally rich and meet the highest IBM standards but also make life
hassle-free for the operators that use them, so it was a logical choice for us and
upon evaluation with other solutions, QMessage Monitor had a far stronger offering
for our requirements." QMessage Monitor helps Tommy and his team to set up,
maintain and monitor their important audit journals on a 24/7 basis. Part of the
compliance regulations is to offer auditors proof that the systems that run the
credit card applications are adequately monitored. Tommy says, "In the evaluation
process this was the only solution that produced a report that goes into my spool
file that I can save and quickly glance at each day. I also have the option of
real-time monitoring of these important journals from my desktop and receiving
alerts should any out of the ordinary situations occur. " For many organizations,
audit journal monitoring is a crucial factor in ensuring compliance for both
internal and external regulations such as PCI or Sarbanes-Oxley. QMessage Monitor
keeps a watchful eye on audit journals and enhances security for many System i
environments by alerting operators in real-time to any security breach messages and
overseeing two-way FTP command monitoring. This is especially useful in creating an
accurate auditable trail of exactly who is accessing the system, when, and for how
long. Specific audit journal entries can be identified and flagged for attention or
similarly, filtered or escalated to an appropriate member of the team based on shift
patterns and availability. For more information about CCSS visit: www.ccssltd.com
ENDSAbout CCSSCCSS develops, supports and markets IBM System i performance
monitoring and reporting, message management and remote management solutions. An
Advanced IBM Business Partner, CCSS develops powerful solutions to support some of
the world's most demanding System i environments across many industries including
insurance, banking, pharmaceutical and manufacturing. All CCSS solutions are IBM
ServerProven. Existing customers that rely on CCSS's feature-rich solutions include
leading organisations such as Volvo, Mattel, Newell-Rubbermaid, The Royal Bank of
Scotland, Siemens Medical, RWE npower and Waterstone's. CCSS is headquartered in
Gillingham, Kent, UK with key regional headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA;
Bonn, Germany and Makati City, Philippines together with a global agent network
spanning Portugal, Brazil, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Sweden.
www.ccssltd.com Notes for Editors:For further informationAdrian Tennant, CCSS
(USA) Corp. Telephone: +1 (919) 256-8266 Email: adrian.tennant@ccssltd.com

Web Site: http://www.ccssltd.com

Contact Details: Adrian Tennant
CCSS (USA) Corp.
Telephone: +1 (919) 256-8266
Email: adrian.tennant@ccssltd.com